Quiz

Questions

1. What disease is ravaging the countryside?
2. What happens to someone suffering from the Red Death before they die?
3. Where does Prince Prospero bring a thousand of his knights and maidens?
4. How does Prince Prospero make sure no one can get into the abbey?
5. What does Prospero decide to do six months after locking himself into the abbey?
6. What's interesting about the seventh room?
7. What enormous item is in the black room?
8. What is the new arrival's costume?
9. Where does the Red Death masquerader go when no one will seize him?
10. What item does Prospero grab when he sees the Red Death masquerader moving toward the black room?
11. What happens when the Red Death masquerader turns around and faces Prospero?
12. What do Prospero's revelers find when they rip the mask off?
13. What happens to each person after they rip the mask off?
14. What happens to the clock and candles at the end of the story?

Answers

1. The Red Death is running rampant.
2. They have shooting pains, seizures and bleeding from all their pores.
3. He brings them to a hidden "castellated abbey."
4. The doors of the abbey are welded shut.
5. He decides to have a masked ball.
6. The room is covered in black velvet but the windows are a deep blood red color.
7. An enormous black clock dominates the room.
8. The new arrival is dressed as someone who died of the Red Death.
9. He moves toward the black room.
10. He grabs hold of a knife.
11. Prospero drops his dagger and falls to the floor dead.
12. There's nothing underneath the mask.
13. They begin contorting, bleeding, and dying.
14. The clock dies and the candles go out.